Magic Hours

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In Magic Hours, award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. He takes us from the set of The Big Bang Theory to the first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the final work of David Foster Wallace; from the films of Werner Herzog to the film of Tommy Wiseau to the editorial meeting in which Paula Fox's work was relaunched into the world. Originally published in magazines such as The Believer, The New Yorker, and Harper's, these essays represent ten years of Bissell's best writing on every aspect of creationabe it Iraq War documentaries or video-game character voicesaand will provoke as much thought as they do laughter. What are sitcoms for exactly? Can art be both bad and genius? Why do some books survive and others vanish? Bissell's exploration of these questions make for gripping, unforgettable reading.athat writer who hung himselfaa And here I had to pause, for I knew Harrison was
thinking of David foster Wallace.ten years ago, I published an essay about my
efforts to quit dipping tobacco. the story was greatly influenced by a coupleanbsp;...

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Magic Hours

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Tom Bissell

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McSweeney's - 2012-04-03

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